From deep Windows 8, Skype, and SkyDrive integration, through to the addition of NFC “wallet” payments and BitLocker encryption, it sounds like Windows Phone 8 will be a very exciting mobile OS indeed.

The GSMA has been pushing for years to have NFC-enabled SIMs as an industry standard in mobile. At this year’s Mobile Asia Congress, it got its wish when 45 heavy-hitting telcos committed to making the dual-purpose cards a standard. With the ease of SIM cloning that exists nowadays, will this open up a Pandora’s box of security issues?

Researchers at PARC and Thinfilm Electronics have finally managed to print — as in, using a printer that is similar to the one attached to your computer — a computer circuit consisting of transistors and memory.

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